ToDoSphere vs Todoist: Which Planner Fits Your Brain?
Both are excellent apps. But they solve fundamentally different problems. Here's an honest breakdown to help you pick the right one — or figure out how to use both.
The Core Difference
Todoist is a project and task manager. It excels at capturing everything you need to do, organising it into projects, assigning due dates, and tracking completion across weeks and months.
ToDoSphere is a visual day planner. It excels at helping you understand and execute today — translating your tasks into a spatial, visual layout where time and priority are instantly obvious.
They're built for different moments in your productivity workflow.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | ToDoSphere | Todoist |
|---|---|---|
| Visual day overview | ✓ Spheres sized by time | ✗ Text list only |
| Daily planning UX | ✓ Purpose-built | — Today view only |
| Time representation | ✓ Visual sphere size | ✗ Not visualised |
| Drag to reorder | ✓ Visual drag | ✓ List drag |
| Project management | ✗ Not designed for this | ✓ Core feature |
| Sub-tasks & nesting | ✗ | ✓ Deep nesting |
| Labels & filters | — | ✓ Powerful |
| Calendar integrations | Coming soon | ✓ Google, Outlook |
| iOS & Android | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free plan | ✓ 5 spheres/day | ✓ Limited |
| Starting price | $2.99/month | $4/month |
| ADHD-friendly design | ✓ Built for it | — |
| Team collaboration | — | ✓ Shared projects |
When ToDoSphere Wins
✓ Choose ToDoSphere if you...
Want to see your day visually, struggle with time blindness, find text lists overwhelming, have ADHD or prefer spatial thinking, want to understand your day's shape at a glance, or simply want a more satisfying, beautiful daily planning experience.
When Todoist Wins
✓ Choose Todoist if you...
Need to manage multi-step projects across weeks or months, work in a team and need shared tasks, require deep integrations with calendars and other tools, or rely heavily on labels, filters, and custom views to manage a large backlog.
The Best Setup: Use Both
Many productive people use both apps together — and this is genuinely the recommended approach for those who need both project management and excellent daily planning:
- Todoist — Capture everything, organise into projects, manage the backlog, plan ahead
- ToDoSphere — Each morning, pull today's most important tasks into spheres and use this as your execution layer throughout the day
This separation keeps your "capture system" and your "execution system" distinct — a distinction that's at the core of most effective productivity methodologies, from GTD to time blocking.
Price Comparison
ToDoSphere Premium starts at $2.99/month (or $14.99/year — save 58%). Todoist Pro starts at approximately $4/month. Both offer free plans with limitations.
For daily visual planning specifically, ToDoSphere delivers more value per dollar — it's purpose-built for the problem, whereas Todoist's daily planning is a secondary feature of a broader project management tool.
The Verdict
If you're choosing between them purely for daily planning, ToDoSphere wins on UX, visual clarity, and ADHD-friendliness. If you need project management, Todoist wins on depth and integrations. And if you can afford both — which together cost less than $10/month — the combination is genuinely powerful.
The best todo app is the one you'll actually use. If text lists aren't working for you, it's worth trying a visual approach.
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